Embodied experiences of prenatal diagnosis of fetal abnormality and pregnancy termination
Pregnant women routinely undergo prenatal screening in Australia and this has become a common experience of motherhood. When prenatal screening or prenatal testing results in diagnosis of a serious fetal abnormality, women are presented with a decision to continue or terminate their pregnancy. Few recent studies have explored women ’s psychosocial experience of prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy termination for fetal abnormality, and within this small group of studies it is rare for research to consider the embodied aspect of women’s experiences. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 20, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Penelope Pitt, Belinda J. McClaren, Jan Hodgson Tags: FEATURE Source Type: research
“When the skies fight”: HIV, violence and pathways of precarity in South Africa
Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in South Africa, this article explores the skies that fight, the proverbial lightning strikes that bring HIV into women ’s lives and bodies. Departing from earlier studies on ARV programmes in and beyond South Africa, and broadening out to explore the chronic struggle for life in a context of entrenched socio-economic inequality, this article presents findings on women’s embodiment of and strategic resistance to structural and interpersonal violence. These linked forms of violence are discussed in light of the concept of precarity. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 20, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Elizabeth Mills Tags: FEATURE Source Type: research
“When the skies fight”: HIV, violence and pathways of precarity in South Africa
Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in South Africa, this article explores the skies that fight, the proverbial lightning strikes that bring HIV into women’s lives and bodies. Departing from earlier studies on ARV programmes in and beyond South Africa, and broadening out to explore the chronic struggle for life in a context of entrenched socio-economic inequality, this article presents findings on women’s embodiment of and strategic resistance to structural and interpersonal violence. These linked forms of violence are discussed in light of the concept of precarity. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 20, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Elizabeth Mills Tags: FEATURE Source Type: research
Embodied experiences of prenatal diagnosis of fetal abnormality and pregnancy termination
Pregnant women routinely undergo prenatal screening in Australia and this has become a common experience of motherhood. When prenatal screening or prenatal testing results in diagnosis of a serious fetal abnormality, women are presented with a decision to continue or terminate their pregnancy. Few recent studies have explored women’s psychosocial experience of prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy termination for fetal abnormality, and within this small group of studies it is rare for research to consider the embodied aspect of women’s experiences. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 20, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Penelope Pitt, Belinda J. McClaren, Jan Hodgson Tags: FEATURE Source Type: research
When the skies fight: HIV, violence and pathways of precarity in South Africa
Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in South Africa, this article explores the skies that fight, the proverbial lightning strikes that bring HIV into women’s lives and bodies. Departing from earlier studies on ARV programmes in and beyond South Africa, and broadening out to explore the chronic struggle for life in a context of entrenched socio-economic inequality, this article presents findings on women’s embodiment of and strategic resistance to structural and interpersonal violence. These linked forms of violence are discussed in light of the concept of precarity. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 20, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Elizabeth Mills Tags: FEATURE Source Type: research
Title, Table of Contents and Acknowledgment
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Source: Reproductive Health Matters - April 30, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Sexual rights and bodily integrity as human rights
Sexuality is a political struggle and, as one of the authors in this issue reflects, we are caught between “repression and danger on the one hand and exploration, pleasure and agency on the other” (Muhanguzi) Although sexuality can be deemed intimate and personal, it is often subject to power relations in both the private and public domains, and is highly politicised. Human rights standards have been applied by authoritative human rights bodies to a wide range of sexuality and sexual health-related matters to form the content and meaning of sexual rights, and the public health benefits of respecting and fulfilling thes...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - December 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Shirin Heidari Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Sexual rights and bodily integrity as human rights
Sexuality is a political struggle and, as one of the authors in this issue reflects, it is caught between “repression and danger on the one hand and exploration, pleasure and agency on the other” (Muhanguzi). Although sexuality can be deemed intimate and personal, it is often subject to power relations in both the private and public domains, and is highly politicised. Human rights standards have bee n applied by authoritative human rights bodies to a wide range of sexuality and sexual health-related matters to form the content and meaning of sexual rights, and the public health benefits of respecting and fulfilling the...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - December 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Shirin Heidari Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
“I provide the pleasure, I control it”: sexual pleasure and “bottom” identity constructs amongst gay youth in a Stepping Stones workshop
This paper explores the meanings attached to gay sexuality through the self-labelling practices of a group of young gay-identified students in focus group and individual interviews in Johannesburg, South Africa. These meanings include constructs of the dynamics surrounding safe sex negotiation and risk related to “top-bottom” subject positioning as well as the erotics of power and desire that are imbued in these practices and positioning. Using performativity theory as a theoretical tool of analysis, I argue that constructs of “top-bottom” subjectivities can be seen to meet certain erotic needs for LGBTI youth, inc...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - December 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Peace Kiguwa Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Sexuality, sexual politics and sexual rights
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Source: Reproductive Health Matters - December 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
The Arab Bed Spring? Sexual rights in troubled times across the Middle East and North Africa
In recent decades, attitudes in many parts of the Arab region have hardened towards non-conforming sexualities and gender roles, a shift fuelled in part by a rise in Islamic conservatism and exploited by authoritarian regimes. While political cultures have proved slow to change in the wake of the ‘Arab Spring’, a growing freedom of expression, and increasing activity by civil society, is opening space for discreet challenges to sexual taboos in a number of countries, part of wider debates over human rights and personal liberties in the emerging political and social order. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - December 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Shereen El Feki Tags: COMMENTARY Source Type: research
Sexuality and sexual rights
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Source: Reproductive Health Matters - December 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Statement from GATE - Global Action for Trans* Equality
8 April 2015 (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - December 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Mauro Cabral, Justus Eisfeld Tags: Statement Source Type: research
“”: sexual pleasure and “bottom” identity constructs amongst gay youth in a Stepping Stones workshop
This paper explores the meanings attached to gay sexuality through the self-labelling practices of a group of young gay-identified students in focus group and individual interviews in Johannesburg, South Africa. These meanings include constructs of the dynamics surrounding safe sex negotiation and risk related to “top-bottom” subject positioning as well as the erotics of power and desire that are imbued in these practices and positioning. Using performativity theory as a theoretical tool of analysis, I argue that constructs of “top-bottom” subjectivities can be seen to meet certain erotic needs for LGBTI youth, inc...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - December 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Peace Kiguwa Tags: Feature Source Type: research
Sexual torture of Palestinian men by Israeli authorities
This study is based on the PCATI database during 2005-2012, which contains 60 cases – 4% of all files in this period – with testimonies of alleged sexual torture or ill-treatment. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - December 15, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Daniel J.N. Weishut Tags: Feature Source Type: research
